Yesterday, Trinity Baptist Church down the street from me hosted "Fall Brawl 2008," an evangelistic effort to the neighborhood that included Christian wresting, rap music, and free food. Naturally, I attended.
As I explained to some, I was thinking this would be a good versus evil skit format, possibly with a Christ figure being bodyslammed by a Satan figure, staying down for a three count, and then getting up and putting the serious hurt on the Satan figure. No such drama was enacted.
However, it was a good opportunity to look into the subculture of Christian wrestling, and even into the more narrow subculture of Christian women's wrestling. I think there's definitely an opportunity here to do some academic work on Christian wrestling while tying in the phone book-ripping Power Team's evangelistic approach as well. Get to work, scholars of American religion.
For a full slide show, complete with commentary from yours truly, head to my photobucket account.
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